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     Young cryptocurrency founder, Tiantian Kullander, has died suddenly at the age of just 30. Tiantian Kullander, the co-founder of Hong Kong-based digital asset company Amber Group, died in his sleep on November 23. The sad news was confirmed on the company’s website. "He put his heart and soul into the company, in every stage of its growth. He led by example with his intellect, generosity, humility, diligence and creativity" the company wrote in a statement confirming his death on their website, commemorating him as a "devoted" husband and "loving" father. Known affectionately by his peers as "TT," the company remembered him as a "respected thought leader and widely recognized pioneer for the industry." "His depth of knowledge, his willingness to collaborate and his desire to always help others benefited countless start-ups and individuals. His insights and creativity inspired many projects, people and communities. "We los...

G5 GOVERNORS WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE IN THE PDP                 IKPEAZU  Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has assured that the G5 PDP Governors are standing on a strong moral pedestal and doing everything to put away impunity and highhandednes in the PDP.  The Governor was speaking at Umuobiakwa at the Gala Nite organized by the State Government in honour of the visiting G5 PDP Integrity Governors who are in the State for the flag off of the Abia State PDP Campaigns. He said that Nigeria is in dire straits and hanging on a balance, adding that if the Integrity Governors fail to put their feet forward, it would spell doom for the country. Dr. Ikpeazu disclosed that they were not pursuing their individual comfort but determined to lay a solid foundation for the unborn generation, stressing that they were determined to stand for the truth . He further stated that as soon as the right thing is done, the PDP will wi...

  I Regret Not Forming Alliance With Peter Obi – Kwankwaso. Presidential Candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, says it’s quite unfortunate that the alliance between his party and Labour party didn’t materialise.Former Anambra state governor, Peter Obi, is the presidential candidate of the Labour Party. Kwankwaso expressed his regret when he spoke at at a forum with the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, and senior journalists in Lagos on Sunday. Kwankwaso said if the alliance had worked there would not have been current contemplation that there might be a run-off presidential poll in 2023 because he and Obi would have won by a landslide. He said the alliance didn’t see the light of the day because of the insistence of the Labour Party team that power must return to the south. His words: “I thought the alliance would be good. If we had done that nobody will be talking about a second ballot in 2023. At our discussions the issue was who will be t...

Prophet Apologises For His Adulterous Affair With Pregnant Married Woman, But Says He Will Take Care Of Her If Her Husband Abandons Her PROPHET APOLOGISES FOR HIS ADULTEROUS AFFAIR WITH PREGNANT MARRIED WOMAN, BUT SAYS HE WILL TAKE CARE OF HER IF HER HUSBAND ABANDONS HER Piercy Enock Peterz Wrote; I WON’T MANAGE THIS HATE ZAMBIANS YOU GIVING ME  AM ALSO HUMAN I MAKE MISTAKES; I APOLOGIZE TO THE MARRIAGE HAVE AFFECTED and DESTROYED . I PROMISE TO TAKE CARE OF THE PREGNANT WOMAN IF THE HUSBAND ABANDONS HER. WHAT I COMMENTED IS A CIVIL OFFENCE NOT A CRIMINAL ONE. TOMORROW I Will Be In COURT, I Guess this is my last Post on Facebook “GOODBYE” i will come back a strong man . Am greatly sorry.

Trump’s Twitter is Back: Elon Musk Poll Reinstates Former President Trump’s Twitter Account Officially Reinstated After Elon Musk Poll Former President Donald Trump has returned to Twitter. The platform, which banned him following the January 6 Capitol attack, reinstated his account after a public poll conducted by Twitter CEO Elon Musk . Elon Musk Lets the Public Decide On Friday night, Musk tweeted a poll asking Twitter users whether Trump should be allowed back on the platform. The CEO promised to follow the majority vote, putting the decision directly in the hands of the public. “The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated,” Elon Musk tweeted Saturday night. “Vox Populi, Vox Dei” — Latin for “the voice of the people is the voice of God.” Poll Results: Narrow Victory for Reinstatement The poll received over 15 million votes, with 51.8% in favor of reinstating Trump’s account and 48.2% opposed. The result highlights the controversial and closely div...

The Plateau State Police Command has rescued a 17-year-old malnourished girl, allegedly locked up in a goat pen by her aunt, for over one week in Rikkos, Jos North Local Government Area of the state.  A neighbour alerted the National Human Rights Commission in Jos after which the police were invited, leading to her rescue. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the aunt was fond of maltreating and starving the girl, an orphan. Coordinator of the National Human Rights Commission in Plateau, Mrs Grace Pam, confirmed the girl’s rescue in a statement on Friday, November 18, 2022.  "The commission received information from an anonymous complainant that the girl was locked up on the balcony of a house by her aunt," she said.  “She was living with her grandmother before she came to the aunt’s house because the grandmother was ill and could not continue to care for her. "The complainant alleged that the aunt travelled for close to a week and left the girl without food. ...

Portable’s Signee, Manny Monie, Speaks After Assault The artiste, Manny Monie, signed to Portable’s Zeh Nation record label, has spoken after he was assaulted and insulted by the latter. In a  video trending online on Friday, Portable accused Manny Monie of being ungrateful and said he employed two music distributors without his (Portable) knowledge. Hours after the video went viral on social media,  Manny Monie, shared a video via his Instagram account explaining what happened. In Pidgin English, he said, "I no know wetin I do am, he just dey tell me sey I dey ungrateful. My brother bought me studio set. I was the one that own the studio (set) that Portable is using. He said he had a dream that some people wants to kill him that we should give him space and I said that I should carry my studio (set) to use till he call us back and he refused that he wants to use the studio (set) to replace the help he did for me. He seized my phone since morning.” Credit: Instagram | manny_mo...

The Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA ,has removed shanties and illegal structures in Katampe . During the exercise, a woman who happened to be one of the affected persons bite One of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), officer in the taskforce team . The tussle occurred when the officers attempted to pin her down from taking aggressive action. The officer who bled profusely after she was bitten was immediately rushed to the hospital, while the woman in question was arrested and taken to Gwarinpa Police station. The Senior Special Assistant to FCT Minister on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement, Comrade Ikharo Attah said the offender has been handed over to the Police for further action. "Attack on the taskforce is normal in our operation. The security lady that was bitten by the other woman was very civil, and another woman bite her in the process of doing her job, but we will leave the Police to do their job. She has already been handed ov...

Lady who jumped into Lagos Lagoon a DSS staff The lady who jumped into the Lagos Lagoon on Thursday afternoon has been identified as Adetutu Adedokun, a staff of the Department of State Services (DSS). According to the Uber driver, Adedokun had an argument with her boyfriend and in the heat of the altercation, she ordered him to stop and disembarked from the cab. She had alighted from a Uber taxi, headed towards the railings of the bridge and plunged into the lagoon. About four months ago, she was said to have received commendations from the DG, DSS, as the best unarmed combat operative in her set. The victim’s fiancé was also reported to have proposed to her a few weeks ago. The Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu who confirmed the incident said a search and rescue team had been mobilised to search for her body. LRT officials, Men of Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA), and officials of the D...

  Hushpuppi will become pastor after jail term - Maduagwu Actor Uche Maduagwu has predicted about the popular convicted Nigerian fraudster, Ramon Abass Olorunwa aka Hushpuppi will become a gospel minister after his jail term. Hushpuppi was sentenced to 11 years and 3 months in federal prison, US by Justice Otis Wright II, for conspiring to launder tens of millions of dollars from online scams. He'll however be spending nine years in prison because he had spent two years already. The instagram celebrity was also ordered to pay over $1.7m in restitution to two fraud victims. Reacting to Hushpuppi's travail, Maduagwu stated he foresees him embracing Christ and becoming a pastor. Maduagwu said: "I See Hushpuppi Becoming A Pastor In Future And Preaching Salvation. There Is Nobody God No Fit Give Second Chance."

No going back on the planned Naira redesign President Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari says the CBN has given Nigerians enough time to deposit the present naira notes at various banks in exchange for the newly redesigned ones. The President said this on Wednesday after a meeting with King Charles the third at Buckingham Palace, UK. President Buhari also said there is no going back on the planned redesign of the 200 Naira, 500 Naira, and 1,000 Naira bank notes. He said the policy will hinder politicians from mobilizing resources and thugs to intimidate voters in the coming elections.

A two-storey building at Bigard Seminary Avenue by Hassan Lane Uwani, Enugu state, has been set ablaze by a 39-year-old mentally deranged lady.  The lady, whose mental breakdown was said to have started since 2017, was said to have run berserk when her parents attempted to send her to a psychiatric hospital in Enugu. The suspect who lives with her parents on the last floor of the two-storey building, started causing trouble lately, a development that forced her parents to invite policemen to help take her to the hospital. An eyewitness told The Nation;  “But when the policemen came early this morning, and the lady noticed that she was about being taken away, she took the gallon containing fuel and poured the content everywhere. “When the policemen climbed up the building, the lady lighted up the place. Her parents, who were coming up with the policemen and the cops themselves all ran for their lives. “Her mother’s shout of fire helped us to know that someth...

  Vigilante shot dead by his son while testing the efficacy of his charm in Adamawa A member of vigilante group in Jada Local Government Area, Adamawa state identified as Yusuf has been shot dead by his stepson, Suugbomsumen Adamu, while testing gun charms' efficacy at their home on Sunday November 6. Yusuf, who was said to be drinking a gin known whiskey, sighted the accused on his way back home on that fateful day when he called him and turned his dane gun on himself and asked him to fire it. The deceased who allegedly acted under the influence of alcohol was believed to have fortified himself with the protective charms, but the charms woefully failed him. The Adamu claimed his stepfather turned the loaded dane gun on himself by putting it on his stomach and asked him to hold it and shoot it. Adamu said he refused but the deceased insisted that he must do as he had commanded him. In obedience to his stepfather's command, the young man pressed the trigger of th...

The Federal Government College in Rubochi, FCT, has produced a robot prototype known as the "Ruby Waiter-Bot" by some of its students. When presenting their invention to the Federal Ministry of Education in Abuja on Tuesday, the students claimed that it would aid in resolving important national issues. The introduction of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) encouraged them to be creative, which resulted in the invention, according to SSS3 Miss Onyoche Bamaiyi. The robot, according to SSS3 student Ephraim Okpara, is made up of 70% recycled materials. The primary objective of today's project was to gather and utilise recyclable materials, which are readily available in the environment. The Coderina Educational Foundation provided robotic kits, which we also used. He thinks the robot would make some tasks quicker and simpler. According to another student in SSS1, Goodluck Ogbole, "The idea of the robot was created out of the challenge of one of our ...

I NSECURITY: IGP ACQUIRES, DEPLOYS 3 ASISGUARD SONGAR ARMED DRONES TO STRATEGIC LOCATIONS The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba psc(+), NPM, NEAPS, fdc, CFR, has acquired three (3) high-powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for improved armed surveillance operations to checkmate criminal activities in the country as a further manifestation of the IGP's determination to integrate the use of innovative technology in the law enforcement duties of the Nigeria Police Force. The newly acquired drones will surely assist the Police in monitoring active crime scenes, coordinating response operations, and providing armed aerial support to officers on reconnaissance operations. The 3 newly acquired UAVs are rotary wing aircrafts capable of flying up to an altitude of 1000ft with high operational endurance and capacity of firing at acquired threats and targets from reasonable distances. The Nigeria Police Airwing has equally concluded trainings for the operators of the drone...

University of Jos has appealed to its ASUU Chapter to resume lectures after the lecturers threatened to suspend classes about pay. This appeal was made by its vice-chancellor, Prof. Tanko Ishaya, in a news conference on Monday in Jos The lecturers claim they were only paid 15 days’ salary by the federal government after ASUU had agreed with House Of Representatives that 50 percent of its members eight months withheld salaries would be paid. Prof Ishaya told newsmen that the lecturers needed to return to lecture theatres to prevent university education from total collapse and urged the union to consider the needs of students and parents. “ASUU should please be considerate and compassionate with students and parents and return to the classroom. I appeal that it allows academic activities to go on while further negotiations with the government on payment of withheld salaries continue. We have asked these students to resume; it will be traumatic to ask them to return home again, having spe...

Nigeria seeks collaboration among African countries on drug war Seamless exchange of intelligence and strengthened collaboration among African countries will help the continent surmount the daunting challenge of illicit drug trafficking and abuse. This was Nigerias position presented by the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), CON, OFR, at the ongoing 30th Conference of Heads of Drug Law Enforcement Agencies Africa (HONLEA) in Nairobi, Kenya; a stand widely supported by other countries represented at the gathering. While briefing the meeting on the gains so far recorded by Nigeria in the fight against drug abuse and illicit drug trafficking, Marwa said there is the need for all to put in place a national coordination mechanism that will ensure coordinated action against the menace. According to him, The starting point is the harnessing of all the stakeholders by the national drug focal agency. Through...

Stakeholders in the education sector have been urged to strengthen the education system with modern technology to enable students be at par with others to meet the present day reality. A Corps member Robinson Ojeka made the appeal in Abuja at an awareness campaign for some schools in the FCT to encourage students on the need to inculcate good morals to build a better nation. Mr. Ojeka who said government had put in place good policies in the education system stressed the need to equip schools with necessary Information Communication Technology as this remains key to fastrack learning and ease of doing business in the sector According to him "Two public schools in participated in the programme that speaks a lot about the education system in the country, it is very promising a lot has been done, I must commend the government for what they have done so far. What we need to do is to strengthen the education system we found that the public schools student are not expose to technolo...

BREAKING: EFCC CHAIRMAN CONVICTED, SENT TO JAIL. The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has convicted the incumbent Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Abdulrasheed Bawa for contempt of court in relation to his agency’s failure to comply with an earlier order of the court for the EFCC to return a seized Range Rover and Fourty Million Naira (40,000,000.00) to the defendant in the case before the court. According to The Nation Newspaper, the Court ordered the Inspector -General of Police to ensure he be remanded in Kuje prison immediately.

Hushpuppi has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. He also has to pay $1,732,841 (over 1.3 billion FCFA) to two fraud victims The sentence for the Instagram influencer from Nigeria, is for his role in an international fraud syndicate. Ramon Abbas, flaunted his wealthy lifestyle on his page which had 2.8 million followers until it was disabled. in 2021 Hushpuppi pleaded guilty to money laundering.

PHOTONEWS;  Tanzanian Fisherman Gets Cash Gift, Job For Saving 24 Lives A Tanzanian fisherman, Jackson Majaliwa, who was among the first responders who helped rescue 24 passengers from the airplane that crashed into Lake Victoria on Sunday has been awarded a cash gift of $428 (equivalent of Tsh1 million) and a government job. According to Eastern Africa, the Kagera Regional Commissioner, Albert Chalamila, handed over the cash to the fisherman from the lakeside town of Bukoba on Monday. While some of the passengers of the plane were rescued alive, 19 died. Tanzanian President, Samia Suluhu offered Mr Majaliwa, a job with the firefighting and rescue brigade and additional rescue operations training to sharpen his skills. Photo credit: MWANANCHI | NMG

The Federal Government said the train services on the Abuja-Kaduna rail line are set to return this month, November. This was disclosed today, Nov. 7, by the Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Sambo while giving the scorecard of his ministry in Abuja. He said adequate security has been put in place to ensure the safety of passengers. The Minister, however, did not give any specific date for the resumption. Sambo said the ministry has learnt enough lessons from the attack in March which claimed the lives of several passengers leading to the suspension of train service on the Abuja-Kaduna route.

Photos of Ekweremadu's daughter and wife in court today as police charge Sonia for trafficking a homeless man into the UK to harvest his organs for herself The daughter of former deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, appeared in a UK court today November 7 to answer to claims that she trafficked a homeless man into the country to harvest his organs for herself. Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice were arrested in June this year and have been standing trial alongside their doctor, Obinna Obeta, for charges bothering on conspiracy to arrange the travel of another person with a view to exploit him and harvest his organ. It is alleged they conspired together, with others unknown and with another family member Isaac Ekweremadu, to arrange the travel of a 21-year-old man identified as David Ukpo Nwamini, with a view to exploiting him between 1 August 2021 and 5 May this year. They have been accused of facilitating his travel from Lagos to London to remove one o...